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  • Aristocracies want gentlemen, oligarchies men who respect and pursue money, and democracies lovers of equality.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • Aristocracies want gentlemen, oligarchies men who respect and pursue money, and democracies lovers of equality.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • Aristocracies hate and fear demagogues most of all, while democracies in their pure form hate and fear “elitists” most of all, because they are unjust, i.e., they do not accept the leading principle of justice in those regimes.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • Aristocracies hate and fear demagogues most of all, while democracies in their pure form hate and fear “elitists” most of all, because they are unjust, i.e., they do not accept the leading principle of justice in those regimes.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • Aristocracies begin by having a leg to stand on, or by getting a finger in the pie.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

  • Aristocracies are always money-seekers, and often money-grubbers; and they plunder all whom they have the power to spoil.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • Aristocracies, causes of commotions in them, 157; chief cause of their alteration, 158; may degenerate into an oligarchy, 79

    Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • Aristocracies have always instinctively felt this, and have decided that a gentleman ought not to know too much of certain arts and sciences.

    II. Apprehension versus Comprehension 1920

  • _ Aristocracies have always instinctively felt this, and have decided that a gentleman ought not to know too much of certain arts and sciences.

    On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • If the Rationalists could for only a few years have the support of the Crowns, Parliaments, Aristocracies, Universities, Schools, and Newspapers of the world; if they could preach Science and

    God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897

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